Particular Quotes · Page 25

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

— Desmond Tutu

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

— David Bowie

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it…

— Veronica Roth

I have a specialization in a very particular area: the presidential primary process.

— Steve Kornacki

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

— Thomas Merton

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

— Ben E. King

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at…

— Mark Rothko

I am particular about my look. I always do my hair and makeup by myself.

— Amanda Lepore

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular…

— Alton Tobey

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity…

— Andrew Weil

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift…

— Dalton Trumbo

I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part…

— Missy Mazzoli

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt…

— Margaret Mahy

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and…

— Justin Amash

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt…

— Herodotus

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or…

— Alison Bechdel

If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or…

— James M. Buchanan

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success…

— Aimee Mullins

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found…

— Moshe Kasher

Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man…

— Henry George

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want…

— James Davison Hunter

One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some…

— Epeli Hau'ofa

People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is…

— Mae Jemison

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…

— Werner Gitt

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

— Alain Badiou

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

— Nick Cave

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

— Omar Bongo

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else…

— Annabelle Selldorf

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's…

— Edward Tufte

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

— Bobby Keys

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

— Frederick Lenz

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

— Bertrand Russell

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

— Stephen Bayley

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

— Jo Beverley

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

— Keira Knightley

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

— J. K. Rowling

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular…

— Tom Petty

Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.

— Julian Assange